Security fears blight European tourism, oil and economy offer relief
LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s travel industry could lose over $1 billion in revenues because of the impact of the Paris attacks, analysts say, though low oil prices and a recovering economy will offset security worries for the best-placed companies.
Two Swedes get life sentences for ‘terrorist crimes’ in Syria
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Two Swedish men were sentenced to life in prison on Monday for “terrorist crimes” in Syria in 2013, a Swedish district court said in a statement.
Egypt says no evidence of terrorism in Russian plane crash
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt said on Monday it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the crash of a Russian passenger plane in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board on Oct. 31.
Turkey could hold separate referenda on constitution, presidential system: PM
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey may hold two separate referenda on whether to adopt a new constitution, and a proposed move to an executive presidential system, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday.
Israel releases four more Egyptians in prisoner swap
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel released four jailed Egyptians on Monday, officials said, completing a prisoner swap under which it brought home an Israeli citizen who had served a 15-year prison sentence in Egypt on espionage charges.
U.S., allies conduct 16 strikes against Islamic State – U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 16 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, according to the coalition leading the operations.
Aid agencies ready supplies and teams to respond to Philippines typhoon
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Aid agencies have prepared post-disaster assistance kits and put their response teams on standby as they monitor the impact of the latest typhoon to make landfall in the central Philippines.
Participant in China Xinjiang attack was brainwashed – report
BEIJING (Reuters) – A participant in a September attack on a coal mine in China’s far western region of Xinjiang that killed 16 people said he had been brainwashed to believe he was going to heaven, a state-run paper reported on Monday.
Laos shows ‘no political will’ to solve activist’s disappearance, U.N. rights official says
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Communist Laos has shown “no political will to solve” the mystery of the abduction of a prominent social activist, a United Nations human rights official said on Monday, on the third anniversary of the kidnapping.
Iraqi state oil firm official shot dead in Kirkuk city: police
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the past four months, police and sources within the company said.
